Western Michigan Solar Car

We are a team of students from western michigan university in kalamazoo michigan.

Western michigan solar car.

Read about our history and mission on the about us page. Cars sponsors donate who are we. We are the sunseeker solar car project a team of students from western michigan university. Although there are sunnier states than michigan the average electricity price is around 0 14 kwh which is above the national average.

Western michigan university doesn t quite have a stock car racing team but the sunseeker solar car team might be the closest thing. This makes solar power a sound investment because every unit of energy produced is worth more than the average price of electricity in the us. Since 1989 the university of michigan solar car team has been designing building and racing america s best solar vehicles. Our team s legacy of excellence has been upheld over its 30 year history.

Kalamazoo mich western michigan university s sunseeker solar race car team celebrated its 30th anniversary with an impressive performance at the formula sun grand prix in austin texas. Sunseeker solar car project western michigan university kalamazoo mi. On a cost per watt w basis a solar panel installation in michigan ranges in price from 2 69 to 3 65. It takes a team of engineering students to design build and.

We design build and race solar powered vehicles in the american solar challenge. Solar farms and arrays. With 9 national championships 7 top 3 world finishes and 1 international championship we are america s number one team. The team started the competition by earning 10 green stickers as the third team to complete the scruitineering process and finished in fifth place overall.

Meeting times spring semester 2020. The team has won the american solar challenge nine times had podium finishes in the bridgestone world solar challenge six times and won its first international championship in 2015 at the abu dhabi solar challenge. In july 2012 michigan s largest rooftop array 977 6 kw was installed in canton on the ikea store. In 2015 dte built a 1 1 mw solar farm at domino s farms near ann arbor slightly larger than the ford carport.

The average cost of a solar panel installation in michigan ranges from 13 472 to 18 228. Curious to know more. This analysis is for a 5 kw photo voltaic system exposed to the average sunlight conditions of michigan. Ford motor company and dte energy built the largest solar plant in the state a 1 04 mw solar car port at ford s world headquarters in dearborn michigan in 2015.